Okay, I have absolutely NO idea why my title for this entry is "Flanagan Fun Run", because that certainly isn't the highlight of my day. I guess I just figured that I should mention it since it is that time of the year. The Flanagan Fun Run at Hopkins Jr. High school is a traditional thing. It started, er..., about ten years ago, I believe. There happened to be a teacher named Mr. Flanagan who always ran around the school to exercise every morning before school started. That is, until he suddenly died of a heart attack one morning while running. And that was probably a pretty sad occasion for the students ten years back. So then the school, in honor of Mr. Flanagan, established the Flanagan Fun Run. I think it's route is equal to 2.5 cross countries, which isn't much at all, considering we have to run 4 cross countries in P.E. Today, all the 7th graders had to run the Fun Run so they could learn the route. Today after school was the real Fun Run, where even teachers participated in running it in memory of their old friend. Afterwards, pizza and drinks were served. I didn't go though, because I like enjoying a short school day whenever I can, and Spring Break has started, so I'm way too lazy to run.
Now that I've explained that, I can get on with some other stuff. Today, Jasmine also went to the math school. It was pretty fun again, since we played some rather interesting math-related games with Easter eggs. Easter is on Sunday!! This will probably be the first year that I will not go on an Easter Egg Hunt. I know it's traditional and all, but I'm not really into it. It's just a couple of eggs, a basket, and some candy...not really interesting anymore. Is it because I'm growing older? Haha.
The other night, some strange person rang our doorbell at 11:40 pm. That was quite scary!! I didn't open the door, because honestly, would anyone have?? Then, after fifteen minutes, the person started pounding on the door. That's when I got really freaked and woke up my sister, who slept early because she had exams the following day. Melody looked out the window and saw a person get into a car and leave, and we were so relieved! Later, my brother told me that there had been a police car on the road across the street from us! Thank God I didn't open the door...it might've been a felon who rang our doorbell! >.< I hope something like that doesn't happen again. Still, isn't it great? Finally something thrilling has happened in my life.
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Heh, I'm bored again. Nothing ever happens in my life that's interesting. It's always the same old routine, day after day. I wonder why some people never get bored of life. Somehow, I think I'll always have to do house chores, always have to argue with a sibling, and I'll never be shown some different kind of life. But living a carefree life isn't too bad, I don't think. At least it gives me an inspiration to make or do something more interesting.
Still though, I can celebrate being alive! ^^ Maybe that is the most interesting thing in life? I don't really know...I don't really know what to blog about today, since there isn't really anything to talk about.
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The feeling of me being able to achieve something I've worked for is pleasant. It's like I'm really happy for no reason, and I just want to jump up and shout. I got a 90% on a piano lesson for the first time in a really long time. I feel greatly satisfied in many ways. For once, I think the week is worth enjoying. I think for me, it's a rather huge achievement. How should I explain it? Imagine reaching the sunrise that's always been at the tip of your fingers. That's how I feel like right now.
That aside, tomorrow is Pie Day!! Er, I mean Pi Day. Today at math school, we ate so much pie!! It tasted so good...there were all kinds of pie, but I only liked the chocolate pie and pumpkin pie. Too bad there was only one piece of pumpkin pie left by the time it was our turn to have class...since we have class last, we always get the "leftover" of things. But, whatever...it was still good. :)
I read in the Argus today that the parents of Mission San Jose elementary are striking against the principal, Mrs. Byrd. Even though I'm only in eighth grade, I still think those parents are stupid. Is it a sin to see a child come out of the office crying after they've received a lecture for doing something bad? I hate parents like that. The kind of parents that are quick to blame others for things that happen to their own children. Honestly, if a child does something wrong, is the principal supposed to 'encourage' the kid? I'm proud that Mrs. Byrd has the courage to yell at the kids. Many school teachers are just a timid bunch who are afraid of getting fired or sued by parents. They just want to keep their job. Mrs. Byrd is the real kind of teacher; the kind who is not afraid to make a child cry in order for them to learn a lesson, and a teacher that is so dedicated to her students that she will yell at them. Have the parents not stopped to think that this is for their children's own good? They need to GET A LIFE. Besides, what's the point of a strike? Is having a nice, doting principal more important or going to school to learn more important? Kids (including me) don't go to school just to learn academic skills. We also learn how to be good citizens. But how will we learn if teachers never point out our problems, never lecture us, and never admonish us when we don't listen? There are kids out there who lie to their parents, and be a good little angel in front of them, but when they get to school, they're devils. Ha, parents might say they don't believe me. But I would like to ask them, "What do YOU know about your own kid?" Know why I know that kids do things like that? Simply because I am a kid just like any other, and I have done things like that before.
And why did I not turn out into the kind of kid who goes to the office every day? I am proud to say that my mom is the 'smart' kind of parent. She saw through all of my fake 'good girl' acting. Yes, she did hit me and keep me in the garage, and not let me eat dinner. But you know what? I learned the price and the pain of doing things like that now. Parents who always tell their children that they haven't done anything wrong are STUPID. Their kids will get the message that no matter what they do, their parents will still stick up for them. Kids like that won't have a future. They'll just always lean on and depend on their parents.
Anyhow, that's just my opinion on something that I completely don't agree with. Of course I'm not going to send any of this to the district or anything. They'll just take advantage that I'm a kid and think I'm a bit out-of-it. Will they listen? ADULTS?! They never listen to kids.
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These days, I'm so busy with school and stuff...and I don't know why, but now, I actually want to do well in school. I can't really explain it...it's like I want to work really hard for the 4.0, and prove to people that it's possible out of me. And I want my mom to be able to say it to others, instead of what she usually has to do...which is be discreet about my grades. I really don't want my grades to be something I have to hide, or a hindrance to me. So I do my math homework all the time now, and when I don't get something, I don't stop asking until I get it. I think it's a good change for me too. Not that I'm usually a bad kid, but I'm not an exceptionally good one either. Same for piano lessons...I'll aim for the 90% during class. If not 90%, I want to maintain an 89% and not drop down all the time. True to say, if I'm forced to do something, I might as well do it well, if not doing it well won't get be anywhere. It isn't like I can quit piano or anything. I'll just make the best out of it. ^^
Also, I'll have to start color guard practice as soon as next week. I want to get on Mission's color guard team, and since Akira can do it, I think I can too. She and I have the same athletic skills. =p Which is not very athletic at all. So I want to practice often and aim for the best. ^^ Then I can try out for the color guard team at the end of 9th grade with no regrets, and with full confidence. It really looks hard though...but I'll try!
So now, I have to practice piano and study for tomorrow's French unit test. I definitely don't want to fail that! >o<
Love ya,
Hikari
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.:After Chinese school:.
Just back from Chinese school :] A friend's mom had to send us home because my mom had to go to a concert. Which is a good thing. Otherwise I wouldn't be updating this blog. Chinese school was crappy as usual, except this boy lost his temper. In short, I believe he has anger management problems :]
We were reading from the text, and he couldn't read the paragraph he was supposed to read...so after the teacher made us all repeat the paragraph, he ripped the page out of his text O-o then he threw it on the ground. The teacher then acted like nothing bad really happened, continuing with the lesson. However, these other people started taunting him, I guess, and then he's like, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Hullo....that guy's in 7th grade....frick, since when's it normal for sevvies to go around saying "fuck"? O.o
Later, when class was nearly over, the teacher told him to stay after school because she wanted to have a "talk" with him. I guess he didn't want to, since he ran screaming out of the room. Our teacher went chasing after him. When me and my friends were walking down the stairs to go out of the school building, we saw the teacher talking to him. He looked pretty unresponsive x.x
But then yup...the most interesting that's happened at Chinese school this entire year...
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.:Afternoon:.
Just got back from swimming. I didn't swim at all...just watched Yuki and Crystal swim the entire time. Actually, I was talking with Aki-chan on the phone almost the entire time. That is, until her dad started stalking her and forced her to hang up the phone =p
I still have so much to do for the DC journal, which is due next week. >.< I love to procrastinate so much it's scary. At least I finally got an A in a French quiz...the first time in three months xD I've always gotten B's.
Mm....I think I'm gonna post my DC journal entries here too, so I dun have to write what happened there all over again. Still, it was an awesome trip =D the best I've ever had so far, minus the trips I make to Kyoto every year. It's so pretty there ^^ but now I'm getting all sentimental O-o that only happens when I'm watching anime or dramas, lol.
Which reminds me, I've still got to watch Bleach ep. 162...but I've been reading Vampire Knight all this while ^^ it's such a sexii anime, lmao.
Well, gotta go now!~ [be back later]
<3 Hikariiiiii
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